Locations
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1:06:55: We see Chance chase a fleeing counterfeiting suspect across an old wooden footbridge. He catches him and threatens to throw him off if he doesn't talk.

This old bridge used to span a large Los Angeles railroad yard, called the Southern Pacific's
"River Station" (because it was next to the L.A.
River).

This area has changed
tremendously over the years. While that old footbridge was still around in 1985, when this movie was made, it is long gone now.

And not only does the footbridge no
longer exist, but the sprawling train yard itself is gone as well, replaced by a large new urban park.

Fortunately, I was able
to find an old 1934 aerial photograph (below) showing exactly where
that footbridge used to be, before it was torn down.

(I highlighted the bridge in red, to make it easier to spot.)

That wooden bridge ran east/west (or more accurately, northeast/southwest) between the 1300 block of N.
Broadway (at the foot of the Elysian Hills) and
the 1500 block of N. Spring Street, above the old River Station / train yard
(otherwise known as Taylor Yard.)

That is near Chinatown, above (north of) downtown Los Angeles.

The area where the train station used to be has been developed into the newLos Angeles State Historic Park.(although a few train tracks remain).

Here's a matching modern Google Earth view of the same area, now a park.
( I have drawn a red line to show approximately where the bridge used to be. )

The official address of the park is 1245 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles.

But that address is at the lower, south end of the park.
The old footbridge spanned what is now the middle section of the new park, with the bridge's east end closer to 1500 N. Spring St., near Sotello Street.

In the chase scene, they are
running southeast, from Broadway to Spring.

They first meet
Rick Masters (Willem DaFoe)
up on the roof of the gym
where he conducts his business transactions (seen in the photo above).
They filmed that scene up on the roof of a building at 8051
Beverly Blvd., in West Los Angeles. That's
at the northwest corner of Beverly Blvd
& Laurel Ave. They're standing atop
an elevated portion of the roof, near the northwest corner of the building.

The building houses, appropriately, The Eaton Gym(which is the door we see them enter).
It's about a third of a mile northwest of Farmers
Market and The Grove.

Later (at 1:40:47), they
go back to the same gym to pick up the counterfeit money that Masters has
printed for them (they are seen entering its door in the photo below,
just before they confront the bodyguard inside, at the foot of the stairs).
When they attempt to arrest Masters, a gunfight ensues.

That doorway
they enter is on the east side of the building. (But like many locations in this film, that storefront has changed its appearance over the years.)

[ Special
thanks to Debus Pascal,
a fan from France who tracked down this location,
and gave assistance on the Watts mural location. Merci beaucoup, Pascal.]

1:13:10: Chance goes
to a seedy topless bar,
where he gets information from Ruth (about a smuggler coming into town
on a train).
It was an actual nude bar, called "Shipwreck
Joey's", and was located at the northeast
corner of Figueroa Street & Harry Bridges Blvd.,
in Wilmington,
CA, across from the docks of the port of Los Angeles harbor. The official address was 1331 W. B Street.
That bar is the same one that was seen in the movie "Fight
Club" as the main fight club location.

But it
no longer exists.For that matter, neither does B Street.
Not long after the "Fight Club"
filming ended, in 1999, the entire building was razed to the ground
(along
with most of the buildings on that harbor strip - due to expansion of
the
harbor). The address is now nothing more than a vacant patch of bare
land, where they are building a new freeway offramp (from the northbound
Harbor (110) Freeway to Harry Bridges Blvd). But you can still
see the oil refinery in the background).

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1:16:48: We see them kidnap
the Chinese diamond smuggler (coming in on Amtrack from San Francisco)
at a train station.

This scene was shot at the venerable Union Station,
located at 800 N. Alameda Street,
in downtown L.A.

Chance pulls a gun on him inside the old train station,
then the action shifts to the outside of the station, where he forces the
captive into a car.

1:18:05: While driving
away with the captive, they are heading east on the surface level of 6th Street, heading towards Mesquit Street. It's there that he reaches the 6th
Street bridge (which passes over the L.A. River and
train tracks).

In the screencap above, the camera is looking east, towards Mesquit Street.

It's under that
bridge (where 6th Street meets
Mesquit Street)
that Chance loses his temper, roughs up his captive, and smashes the
briefcase.

(
The 6th Street Bridge, which spanned the L.A. River and the railyards,
used to be one of the most-used filming locations in L.A. But due
to age and earthquake concerns, the classic bridge was torn down in
2016, and will be rebuilt with a more modern design. )

1:23:58:Followed by
gunmen trying to kill them, they race a speeding
train and pull in front of it, to elude
their pursuers.

They then crash down into the
L.A. Riverbed (also
just south of the 6th Street Bridge), and race back north along the semi-dry
riverbed. Things don't get any better for them there, as even more cars & gunmen come out of nowhere to shoot at them.

The arched bridge seen above is the 6th Street Bridge.

( The other bridge, see below, is the 4th Street bridge.)

The spot where they pull in front of the train was on the train tracks
on the west side of the L.A. riverbed, just
south of the 6th Street Bridge, in downtown.
They (and the train) were heading north.

1:26:37: The final part
of the lengthy car chase scene,
where they go the wrong way
up a freeway onramp, jumps abruptly from downtown L.A. to the Long Beach
area. More specifically, it shot was on and around the Terminal
Island Freeway, near Henry Ford Avenue(the green Henry Ford draw bridge can be seen in the photo above).

1:28:28: The
final spot in the chase sequence, where they stop and get out of the
car (after getting away), was obviously shot in an area near a bridge, and filled with junk yards,
This area has undergone significant changes over the
years, making this obscure location very hard to find.

The old bridge, seen in the screencap above, was widened and
modernized, so it no longer looks the same.

And the bridge wasn't the only
thing that changed. Improbably enough, the small street they are
driving on in that scene (below) no longer exists (or at least, not the part of
the street where they parked).

But enough of the area has remained recognizable that I was eventually able to pinpoint the spot.

The best clue was the long building, seen in the background (in the screencap above), with a hard-to-read sign on
it. That building is still there, and it turns out to be the Coordinated Equipment Co., at
1707 E. Anaheim Street, in Wilmington, CA.

From there, it was just
a matter of using Google Earth to determine where the car was
parked, in relation to that building.This scene was shot in east
Wilmington,CA (near the Long Beach border), just north of the Anaheim Street bridge (which passes over the Dominguez
channel), and just south of I Street, about 1,000 feet east of Henry
Ford Ave. It was shot on a portion of a street that no longer exists.

The name of that street was Vreeland
Avenue, and they were parked on the part of the street which ran just south of I Street, and just north of the Anaheim
bridge.

But Vreeland no longer runs south of I Street. It now ends at I
Street, and the area to the south, where that street used to be, is now buried in a tangle of junkyards and wrecked cars.

The nearest street now is to the east of where Vreeland used to be, and it is named Sutherland Avenue.

I
spent a long time trying to pinpoint the place where it
was shot on Southerland, only to eventually realize that it wasn’t shot
on Sutherland
at all, but on that now-gone southern portion of Vreeland Avenue. I
realized that the the south end of Vreeland must have vanished.

To confirm that, I tracked
down an old street map of Wilmington & Long Beach, and sure enough, the map showed
Vreeland continuing south of I Street,with Southerland slanting westward to possibly meet near Anaheim Street. On that map it appears that the south
end of Vreeland curves to the east to run into Southerland. (See a close-up here.) A second old map
gave an even closer view, but doesn't show the same bend in the street.

In the scene, it appears they were first driving along the
southeast section that joined those two streets, and then they
definitely came to a stop
on Vreeland (heading north, parking on the east side od that former
street, near what was 805 Vreeland). When we see them parked (in the
screencap above), the
camera is looking west across those junkyards to the Coordinated
Equipment Co.

To the far left, in that same screencap,
we can
also see a billboard and a traffic light in the distance. Those
were at the intersection of Anaheim Street and Henry Ford Ave.

The movie's
final credits show the viewpoint of a
passenger in a car, heading south down the Harbor
(110) Freeway, first past the Wilmington
refinery area where you'll find Steve Jones's
house, and then east over the Vincent Thomas
Bridge onto Terminal Island,
and across to Long Beach.

Here is a matching StreetView of the screencap above,
as seen from the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway.

( Follow it south, and over the Vincent Thomas Bridge to recreate the drive seen in the credits. )